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Comparative evaluation of underlying causes of death processed by the Automated Classification of Medical Entities and the Underlying Cause of Death Selection Systems [PDF]
Revista de Saúde Pública, 1998 INTRODUCTION: The correct identification of the underlying cause of death and its precise assignment to a code from the International Classification of Diseases are important issues to achieve accurate and universally comparable mortality statistics ...
Santo Augusto H. +2 more
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Journal of Epidemiology, 2016 Background: Cause of death (COD) information taken from death certificates is often inaccurate and incomplete. However, the accuracy of Underlying CODs (UCODs) recorded on death certificates has not been comprehensively described when multiple diseases ...
Makiko Naka Mieno
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COVID-19 as the underlying cause of death: disentangling facts and values. [PDF]
Hist Philos Life Sci, 2021 In the ongoing pandemic, death statistics influence people's feelings and government policy. But when does COVID-19 qualify as the cause of death? As philosophers of medicine interested in conceptual clarification, we address the question by analyzing the World Health Organization's rules for the certification of death.
Amoretti MC, Lalumera E.
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Underlying Causes of Death among Adults with Cerebral Palsy
Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2022 Background: Adults with cerebral palsy (CP) represent a growing population whose healthcare needs are poorly understood. The purpose of this study was to examine trends in the underlying causes of death (UCOD) among adults with CP in the United States.
Mark D. Peterson +2 more
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Validity of underlying cause of death statistics in Hermosillo, Mexico [PDF]
Salud Pública de México, 2011 This paper assesses the quality of the underlying cause of death (COD) statistics in Hermosillo, Mexico in a random sample of 300 in-hospital adult deaths.A "gold standard" COD, determined by a systematic review of hospital medical charts, was compared to the COD reported by the vital registry system.Overall agreement between the reviewer and original ...
Mary H Freire, de Carvalho +3 more
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DeepDeath: Learning to predict the underlying cause of death with Big Data. [PDF]
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, 2017 AbstractMultiple cause-of-death data provides a valuable source of information that can be used to enhance health standards by predicting health related trajectories in societies with large populations. These data are often available in large quantities across U.S. states and require Big Data techniques to uncover complex hidden patterns. We design two
Hassanzadeh HR, Ying Sha, Wang MD.
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Necropsy-based study on dairy cow mortality—Underlying causes of death
Journal of Dairy Science, 2023 The worldwide problem of increasing dairy cow mortality is widespread in modern production systems, it causes economic losses, and indicates problems with herd health and welfare. Most studies on causes of dairy cow mortality are limited as they are based on secondary register data, or questionnaires for producers or veterinarians, and neither ...
K.A. Hagner +7 more
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Discordance in investigator-reported and adjudicated sudden death in TIOSPIR [PDF]
, 2017 Accurate and consistent determination of cause of death is challenging in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients. TIOSPIR (N=17 135) compared the safety and efficacy of tiotropium Respimat 5/2.5 µg with HandiHaler 18 µg in COPD patients ...
Austen, George +6 more
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Mortality due to systemic mycoses as a primary cause of death or in association with AIDS in Brazil: a review from 1996 to 2006 [PDF]
, 2009 Deaths caused by systemic mycoses such as paracoccidioidomycosis, cryptococcosis, histoplasmosis, candidiasis, aspergillosis, coccidioidomycosis and zygomycosis amounted to 3,583 between 1996-2006 in Brazil. When analysed as the underlying cause of death,
LAURENTI, Ruy +4 more
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BMC Public Health, 2022 Background Reliable mortality data are essential for the development of public health policies. In Brazil, although there is a well-consolidated universal system for mortality data, the quality of information on causes of death (CoD) is not even among ...
Carmen Diva Saldiva de André +19 more
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